{"id":11681,"date":"2024-09-21T09:21:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T14:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=11681"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T14:26:38","slug":"wookies-8th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=11681","title":{"rendered":"Wookie&#8217;s 8th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been Wookie\u2019s 8th birthday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Wookie-in-Car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Wookie-in-Car-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Wookie-in-Car-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Wookie-in-Car.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago when she was diagnosed with kidney disease, I happened to notice a chart on the wall showing small dogs\u2019 lifespan in human years. According to it, Wookie would have been 48 years old when she turned 8. I am 48 years old right now, so I hoped we could be 48 together. When she passed I was extremely sad that we\u2019d never be the same age.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a week ago I came across a video discussing something called a Lap Day, which marks the moment when you and your dog match in age, measured in dog years. I put our info into one of the calculators online and got the below result. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lap-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lap-Day-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lap-Day-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lap-Day-1024x537.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lap-Day-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lap-Day.jpg 1119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It makes me happy to know we synced up in age after all, and on Joe\u2019s birthday, no less. <\/p>\n<p>I still miss her so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been Wookie\u2019s 8th birthday. Two years ago when she was diagnosed with kidney disease, I happened to notice a chart on the wall showing small dogs\u2019 lifespan in human years. According to it, Wookie would have been 48 years old when she turned 8. I am 48 years old right now, so I hoped we could be 48 together. When she passed I was extremely sad that we\u2019d never be the same age. Less than a week ago I came across a video discussing something called a Lap Day, which marks the moment when you and your dog match in age, measured in dog years. I put our info into one of the calculators online and got the below result. It makes me happy to know we synced up in age after all, and on Joe\u2019s birthday, no less. I still miss her so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-11681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-wookie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11684,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11681\/revisions\/11684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}